Scotti, R. A. <br/><br/>
Basilica  : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's 
/ R.A. Scotti 
 - New York  : Plume  , 2007, c2006. 
 - viii, 315 p.  : ills.  ; 21 cm. 
<br/><br/> First Plume printing. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-300) and index. 
<br/><br/> It was the splendor--and the scandal--of the age, the defining event of the high Renaissance. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave--to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled 27 popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists of the age--Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, and Bernini. As the basilica rose, modern Rome rose with it, as glorious as the city of the Caesars. But the cost was unimaginable: the new basilica provoked the Protestant Reformation, dividing the Christian world for all time.--From publisher description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780452288607 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005058464 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013464475   Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Basilica de San Pietro in Vaticano----History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Vatican City----History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA5620.S9  / S36 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>726.50 SCO